As a carry over from last Wednesday, read and post a Piazza reading response to: "The Perfect Brainstorm" from Chapter 4 of The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley [link]

As a counterpoint to the Kelley article, you can (optionally) read: "Groupthink" by Jonah Lehrer, which was recently published in the New Yorker. [link]. You do not need to provide a reading response for this article.

Class5

Feb 8

In Class Group Brainstorming [slides; pictures]
Assignments Due by 10AM Today:

As a counterpoint to the Kelley article, you can (optionally) read: "Groupthink" by Jonah Lehrer, which was recently published in the New Yorker. [link]. You do not need to provide a reading response for this article.

Read Chapter 3 "Principles of Contextual Inquiry" in the book Contextual Design by Beyer and Holtzblatt [link]. No Piazza reading response necessary but this text should be useful to you for the "User Research" team project assignment.

Read and post a Piazza response to the SafePath project proposal. The response can simply be a bulleted list pointing out three positive aspects to the write-up and one or two areas for improvement. (due Monday, March 5th at 12PM (noon))

Read and post a Piazza response to the pages 9 - 28 in Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things" covering affordances, visibility, mappings, and feedback [link] (due Monday, March 5th at 12PM (noon))

Week7

Read and post a Piazza response to the SafePath project proposal. The response can simply be a bulleted list pointing out three positive aspects to the write-up and one or two areas for improvement. (due Today at 12PM (noon))

Week14

Fill out peer review of team member contributions on Team Assignment #4: "Lo-to-Mid Fidelity Prototype Testing and Refinement" [link] (due Wednesday by classtime)

Read and post a Piazza response [link] to either "A Tour through the Visualization Zoo" [link] or "Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis" [link] both by Heer et al. (due Monday, April 30th at 12PM (noon))